Totally Lit

Totally Lit

Brings realistic/hardcore mechanics to torches, candles, lanterns, campfires, and jack o' lanterns in a configurable way.

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Soul lanterns don't seem to die ...
Truly abandoned mineshafts
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Light your way

About this Mod

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Designed to fit into Minecraft's lore as closely as possible, while providing a more challenging early game experience and encouraging players to use powered, magical, and bioluminescent light sources.

An open source mod built for Fabric (works on Quilt, too). Requires Fabric API and owo-lib. For more in-depth information regarding the project, read the wiki 📖.

Inspired by Realistic Torches, thank you MattCzyr!

✨ Features

  • 💡 Dynamic lighting is fully supported with LambDynamicLights.
  • 🌧 Candles and torches will extinguish when rained on.
  • ⏳ Campfires, candles, jack o' lanterns, lanterns, and torches will extinguish over time.
  • 🔥 Bring unlit torches to life during your adventures with fire, lava (flowing, standing, or even in a cauldron!), or flint and steel.
  • 🏊 Wading, swimming, fully submerging in water, or getting rained on can cause jack o'lanterns, lanterns, and torches to extinguish.
  • 💪 Glowstone lanterns and torches for mid/late-game which are waterproof and never die out.
  • 🧯 Torches, lanterns, and jack o' lanterns extinguish when stored in chests or placing in bundles.
  • 👷 Villagers prevent any extinguishing in a configurable cubed radius, no more dark villages.
  • 📄 Configurable with files or the settings page provided by integration with Mod Menu.

⛔ Compatibility

Should work with most mods that don't modify torches, lanterns, campfires, candles, and jack o' lanterns in an intrusive way.

📥 Downloads

Officially available at CurseForge, Modrinth, and GitHub.

🛣️ Roadmap

  • Finish wiki.
  • Add events for developers.
  • Extend inventory behaviours to mobs.
  • Integrate Jade tooltips.
  • Attach to Villager and Allay AI brains to ignite unlit torches, lanterns, jack 'o lanterns, and campfires in a fun way.

📜 Copyright & License

© 2025 Dale E. Wingard, Jr.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
and a copy of GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Available Versions

1.2.2 for 26.1release
MC 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2fabric, quilt
June 13, 2026
1.2.1 for 26.1release
MC 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2fabric, quilt
June 11, 2026
1.2.1 for 1.21.11release
MC 1.21.11fabric, quilt
June 11, 2026
1.2.0 for 1.21.11release
MC 1.21.11fabric, quilt
June 10, 2026
1.1.4 for 1.21.1release
MC 1.21.1fabric, quilt
June 2, 2026

How to Install Totally Lit on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set fabric Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (26.1.2).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Totally Lit". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

fabricquilt

Minecraft Versions

26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1 (+23 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Totally Lit server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (26.1.2). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Totally Lit compatible with fabric and quilt?

Totally Lit officially supports fabric, quilt for Minecraft 26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Totally Lit – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Totally Lit consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later
Server-side
Required

Supported Versions

26.1.226.1.126.11.21.111.21.41.21.31.21.11.20.61.20.51.20.4+16 more